"The Thing in the Vault is a Dashiell Hammett/H P Lovecraft pastiche and done extremely well." **** - Amazon reviewer T.G Cooper.


A darker shade of Noir: a novella of mystery and terror to delight detective fans and veterans of the Cthulhu Mythos alike.

1927, Chicago: Tough private eye Ed Jones takes on a simple assignment to investigate an eccentric German scientist. But Jones knows there's no such thing as a simple assignment... and that there's a lot his client isn't telling him.

The trail leads to a New England town, where Jones is not the only visitor from Chicago: there are machine-gun toting gangsters, a smooth-talking con artist and an assassin with a garrotte, plus the scientist himself, who is a stranger character than Jones could have imagined. The locals don't seem to like any of them -- but they're more afraid of the mysterious hooded figures deep in the forest.

Jones is forced to team up with some unlikely comrades, to solve some unsolved murders and tackle a gang like nothing else on Earth...

For those who like their Cthulhu hardboiled, this tale of the roaring Twenties mixes gangland violence with unearthly terror -- and some serious sleuthing as Jones puts together the pieces to figure out what's really going on...

Note: This story is included in the collection The Dulwich Horror & Others

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David Hambling is an author, journalist, cat-lover and Call of Cthulhu fan living in South London. He writes for The Guardian, The Economist, WIRED, Popular Science among others.
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